Count cells that contain any text

Question

I want to count the cells that contain anything within a range. Any cell that contain text, or numbers or something else should do a plus one in my result-cell.

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Answer 1

COUNTIF function will only count cells that contain numbers in your specified range.

COUNTA(range) will count all values in the list of arguments. Text entries and numbers are counted, even when they contain an empty string of length 0.

Example: Function in A7 =COUNTA(A1:A6)

Range:

A1 a

A2 b

A3 banana

A4 42

A5

A6

A7 4 -> result

Google spreadsheet function list contains a list of all available functions for future reference https://support.google.com/drive/table/25273?hl=en.